Toilet campaigner plans council poll take-over

Press, 14 February 1986, Page 5

Toilet campaigner plans council poll take-over

Mr Brian Brown, the Hornby toilet campaigner, plans to stand for election to the Paparua County Council, and so do several of his supporters. Mr Brown, a Hornby businessman, has decided the best way to get more toilets installed in the Hornby shopping mall is to take over the council in the local body elections this October. He has been campaigning to the council for more toilet facilities in the area for almost two years. He believes his last estimate of about 25 people a day using his shop toilet has increased

since longer shopping hours started at the mall. Mr Brown said he had set up a training school for prospective councillors and had recently arranged for lectures by Mr Clary Hodgson, a former Queenstown and Kaiapoi Town Clerk and Kaiapoi Borough councillor. Mr Hodgson would educate his students on the financial side of councils, the relationship between councillors and council staff, chairmanship, and promoting the council to the news media, said Mr Brown. Mr Brown hopes he and his candidates will win

the six Hornby and Sockburn seats and two seats elsewhere in the county, to give them a majority on the council. If elected, he said, his first task as chairman of the Paparua and Hornby community councils would be to install more toilets, rest rooms, and creches wherever needed in the county. “The present council had better start looking for part-time jobs now,” Mr Brown said. “If there are any financial hardship cases, I will be willing to offer some members shift work jobs on a rotational basis on my toilets.”